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    Comic Book Covers
    Comic Book Covers
    Comic Book Covers
    Ebook110 pages26 minutes

    Comic Book Covers

    By Sandra Forty

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    Comics entered their “golden age” in 1938 when a new idea revolutionized the industry: the creation of the first and archetypal superhero. Superman, pioneered by Detective Comics, better known as DC, was quickly followed by Batman, another brainchild of DC, in 1939. An explosion of acrobatic superheroes, such as Captain America, Wonder Woman, and The Green Lantern, quickly made the previous heros of the crime, cowboy, and romance genres look dated. Also in 1939, Marvel, then known as Timely Publications, introduced The Human Torch and his anti-hero Namor. That same year the creative and driving force of the superhero comic book genre, Stan Lee, began to work at Timely. The genre would never be the same again after benefiting from his innovative influence. Comics promoted wartime messages and patriotic spirit with the onset of WWII. By providing inexpensive and colorful entertainment, they also kept Americans’ spirits up amid wartime hardships and worries about friends and family members in harm’s way in both Europe and the Pacific. In more recent years, the comics genre has exploded with revolutionary artwork and formats, attracting an even broader array of readers. Today, comics and their related products are widely collectable as investments.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTAJ Books International
    Release dateMar 3, 2013
    ISBN9781844063093
    Comic Book Covers
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    Sandra Forty

    Sandra Forty is a graduate of London University where she studied medieval and early modern history, including a spell at the Courtauld Institute learning about Renaissance art from Professor Gombrich. Since then she has worked as a journalist in London, then as a book editor and writer. She is the author of a number of books, most on art and architecture. Sandra lives in south Devon with her husband, children and many cats.

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      Comic Book Covers - Sandra Forty

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      Published by TAJ Books International LLC 2013

      219 Great Lake Drive

      Cary, North Carolina, USA

      27519

      www.tajbooks.com

      www.tajminibooks.com

      Copyright © 2013 TAJ Books International LLC

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored

      in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,

      mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written

      permission of the Publisher and copyright holders.

      All notations of errors or omissions (author inquiries, permissions)

      concerning the content of this book should be addressed to

      info@tajbooks.com.

      The Publisher wishes to thank all image contributors, including Edward Liu

      for the photograph of Stan Lee. The Publisher believes the use of the comic

      book covers at the size depicted qualifies as fair use under United States

      copyright law.

      eISBN 978-1-84406-272-0

      PRINT ISBN: XXXXXXXXXXXXX

      Printed in China

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      Once, images were crucial to understanding—they were used to represent ideas before words and writing were ever conceived. Until the advent of the printing press, writing was the domain of the landowning and religious upper classes. Yet even when writing and printing had evolved and history could be recorded and more widely distributed, images still kept their power. After all, we still subscribe today to the saying: A picture/image is worth a thousand words. A powerful symbol can be totemic. When industrial printing and publishing were established, reading material finally became more available to all of society. That landmark was soon followed by mass education

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